{"id":615,"date":"2010-07-11T20:01:40","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T04:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=615"},"modified":"2010-07-13T19:00:17","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T03:00:17","slug":"a-week-of-meadows-lakes-and-peaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=615","title":{"rendered":"A Week of Meadows, Lakes and Peaks"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had an exceptional week on the bike.\u00a0 There was plenty of work, family and riding which did not leave much time for the keyboard.\u00a0 So here are a few pics from\u00a0the week.\u00a0\u00a0 For the mid-week stoke, I met Steve, Eric and Todd for some fun in the Laguna Mountains on the Big Laguna Trail and surrounding area.\u00a0 I forgot my camera\u00a0at \u00a0home so these pictures are courtesy of my fellow riders.<\/p>\n

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Some log riding on the Los Gatos Trail<\/p>\n

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Some playing was done on the rocks.<\/p>\n

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Not your average dry and dusty SoCal trail.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We had an exceptionally good ride and clocked in around 17-18 miles of good alpine meadow goodness.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Friday, I got in a lunch time quickie\u00a0at La Costa which is always a good place to get in\u00a0some short but quality mileage.\u00a0\u00a0 No Pics<\/p>\n

Sunday, I finally got around to doing a ride that I had been curious about for a number of years.\u00a0 The Highpoint Truck Trail that goes up the north side of Palomar Mountain.\u00a0\u00a0 My bud Clayton, with whom I first rode with in Japan in 2004, just moved back to San Diego so he was up for a ride.\u00a0\u00a0 I was surprised to see him show you for this ride with his singlespeed.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 While I be putting up a page on the site in the coming weeks, the quick numbers on this ride are\u00a0it is a 12 miles long\u00a0climb that gains 4,400 feet up to the Highpoint Lookout Tower. Needless to say, Clayton\u00a0earned major climbage points today as a one-geared wonder.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Grunt, Grunt, Groan, Groan<\/p>\n

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Killer Views from the top.<\/p>\n

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I see the observatory rather often from the various SoCal highpoints I ride to as a small white dot, This time it was a wee-bit closer.<\/p>\n

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The Highpoint Lookout Tower,\u00a0 elevation 6,118 feet.\u00a0\u00a0 I’m sure there are worse ways to spend a workday.<\/p>\n

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When it was time to turn the wheels around we enjoyed cashing out the gravity points we had earned.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Some people hate fireroads,\u00a0but 12 miles of downhill with some sketchy turns is pretty freaking fun.\u00a0\u00a0It was a good way to finish off the weekend, Bring on Monday!<\/p>\n

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